I've been running a
SM3D12/dish
installation through it's paces here using USALS positioning and discovered a disturbing hardware limitation it has.
My question; Is there some way to setup this motor so it can rotate (using USALS) through an arc from about 160 to 250 degrees? If not by USALS, how about DiSEqC 1.2?
For information, I used Pansat recommend 181 degrees (Detroit area south) as the setup reference azimuth. Receiver is Pansat 2300. So far, I've been able to receive 8 satellites that are between 174 to 214 degrees azimuth. I am able to position the system to my eastern most satellite at 150 degrees. However, when I try to go to the extreme westerly satellite at 252 degrees; the motor doesn't rotate to that position. It starts, then moves a few degrees and stops.
After reviewing the fine print in the manual, I find that this motor hardware is only capable of 95 degrees of rotation. I interpret that to mean that it's limited to rotating only 47.5 degrees to either side of the reference (south) setup position azimuth. So calculating what this means; 181 deg. reference position plus 47.5 deg. rotation limit equals 228 degrees azimuth. This limitation means that I can't drive the dish far enough to receive a number of satellites that are west of this limit.
Any & all help will be very much appreciated. Best, Dick